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 | | There were two main options in the early sixties as goals for the space race with the Soviets: a space station, or a Moon landing. |
 | | "Because it is hard" doesn't really explain why you do a controlled flight into the terrain of Mars, destroying a hundred-million-dollar probe, because one group of engineers is using metric, and the other is using English units. |
 | | "Because it is hard" doesn't provide an excuse for pouring a billion dollars into a single hangar queen in Palmdale, Calif., called X-33, that had so many risky (and unnecessary) technologies in it that its failure was almost assured from the beginning. |
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